The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-06-16
cURlOSlTIES IN LIFE.

Sadie Meyer, of Lansford, Pa, is 10 years
old, weighs 1876 pounds and is taking ON fat
at the rate of two pound. week.
Poore and Rich We're names that were
printed in juxtaposition in the death notices
published in Boston papers last week
The running expenses of the village of
Estelline, D. T., for the last year were S4S
the chief item being the nlarshars salary, $40.
Jacob WEIGH, Of Richie county, W. Va,
cut down hollow maple tree the other day.
from which ran twenty-seven full grown
squirrels.
Haggard's best novel has had curious ex-
perience in an English public library. king
Solomon's Mines" is placed among the works
on mineralogy.
A pocketbook which he carried in his inside
pocket over his heart successfully defended a
Sandwich, Mich, man from bullet fred by
fleeing burglar
A marble firm at Mattawan, n. Y, has re-
ceived from San Francisco a model Of a
monument which lady wishes placed over
her husbands grave at West Point, cut from
a loaf of bread.
There is a woman in Pamela, Ga, who is
the mother Of twelve living children, the
eldest of whom is 45 years Of age and the
youngest II, and she never has seen them to-
gether all at once in her life; that is, they all
have never been ABOUT nome within SIX
months of each other.-Savannah News.
How did the case go to-day:" l asked a
lawyer about trial in the criminal court, in
which there were two defendants. "Well, it
went pretty we'll got up and made tell
ing speech against the first defendant. put
ont my best powers and the jury Immediately
acquitted him. rested my case against the
second defendant, and the same evidence,
without any address, and the jury most
unanimously convicted him. l make no
more speeches now"-San Francisco Chron-
icle
1t will be remembered that our city hos
pita1 was pretty badly wrecked by the last
cyclone that passed over our city. During
the blow one of the doors of the building was
carried away and could not be found on that
dav Since then there has been a diligent
and thorough search made for the door and
it is still missing. The bayous, ravines,
woods and fields have been searched for it,
but no trace of it can be found. The ques-
ton is. What has become of it2-Natchez
{NIiss.) Democrat.
"Ah there" said hotel clerk yesterday
afternoon, 1.-TWO to one that every fifth man
who comes in the front door has a club foot.
Did you ever observe" he continued, ''that on
certain DAYS there is a rush of club footed
men to the hotels! can't say on what par
Clculdf days, DuU L nave HOUlceu uO-udy tudt
in the proportion of one to five they have
marched through here. Funny, isn't it?
That's one of them. The days change. To
morrow it may be one eyed men, and on Sum-
days fellows with six fingers. 1t all goes in
the business, but never trust a man with six
fingers st. Paul Pioneer Press.
A little boy in Philadelphia was flying a
kite on the housetop Another lad two or
three houses away was engaged in the same
diversion. One opened his mouth to call to
the other, and just then flock of swallows
! came flying by. One of them, evidently con-
| fused, flew against the boys face, driving his
| bill clean through his cheek. In his agony
! the lad closed his teeth hard and held the
bird fast The swallow was partly stunned
| by the shock, and, with the bird sticking out
| from his cheek, the lad ran down stairs to his
| mother She removed the bird, and it now
occupies handsome cage in the house, and
its owners wouldn't part with it under any
! consideration.